Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Learning in the Arctic CIRCLA

The Arctic Today – and Tomorrow 9.30: Opening of the conference Robert C. Thomsen, Director of CIRCLA, Aalborg University 9.35: ‘Note of Welcome; introduction to CIRCLA’ Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University 9.45: ‘Arctic Studies and Aalborg University’ Inger Askehave, Pro-rector of Aalborg University 9.55: ‘A New Future for the Arctic?’ Klavs A. Holm, Ambassador, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs 10.30: ‘The Arctic is Open for Business’ Claus Holstein, Managing Director of Aalborg Harbour/Arctic Business Network 11.00: Coffee break (free of charge)

11.15: ‘Canada’s Perspectives on a Changing Arctic’ Kim Girtel, Chargé d’Affaires, Canadian Embassy, Copenhagen 11.30: ‘Indigenous Rights in Russian and North American Norths’ Gail Fondahl, Professor, University of Northern British Columbia/International Arctic Social Sciences Association 12.15: ‘Marine Resources in Greenland – strategies, politics and new opportunities’ Jesper Raakjær, Professor, Aalborg University 13.00: Lunch (free of charge) 13.30: ‘Arctic Studies – globalization, urbanization and culture’ Birgit Kleist Pedersen, Assoc. Professor, University of Greenland/Ilisimatusarfik